Bowling Green Area Community Bands will perform “Music is Magic” on March 17 at 4 p.m. at the Bowling Green Schools Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and doors open at 3:30 p.m.
BiG Band BG, under the direction of Brian Bushong (trumpet), will open the concert with Abracadabra, with soloist Dan Mrachko (saxophone). Followed by Mr. Lucky, showcasing the saxophone section, with soloist Dan Shelhaus (saxophone). BiG Band BG will conclude their section with In the Stone, with soloist Ken Zuercher (guitar).
Then the concert band will take the stage beginning their program under the direction of Roy Young (tuba), with the rhythmic fanfare Quintillusion! Followed by the premier of Chorale, a piece full of soaring brass and woodwind color written and conducted by BGACB’s very own Joseph Stribrny (trombone).
Then in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, Karen Kelly (bass clarinet) will conduct Eire, a colorful musical portrait of Ireland with soloists Jennifer Amon and Erin Crawford (piccolo), Kim Kucharski (flute), Teresa Disbrow (clarinet), Lynn Zuercher (bassoon), Alex Peters (horn), and Phil Smith (euphonium).
The BGACB percussion section will perform Double Trouble from “Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.” But the Harry Potter fun doesn’t stop there. Karen Smith (saxophone) will lead the BGACB Woodwind Choir in Nimbus 2000 from “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone.”
The concert band will reunite as a whole with Kelly at the podium, for Symphony 1 from “The Lord of the Rings.”
The concert will conclude under the direction of Young with The Charlatan March.
